Political Violence in Southeast Asia since 1945

This book examines postwar waves of political violence that affected six Southeast Asian countries-Indonesia, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam-from the wars of independence in the mid-20th century to the recent Rohingya genocide. The book raises key questions for the study of mass violence worldwide.

Introduction Part 1: Dimensions of Mass Violence 1. A Time to Kill: The Anti-Communist Violence in Indonesia, 1965-66 2. Expulsion or Incorporation: Valences of Mass Violence in Myanmar Part 2: The Politics of Fear 3. Performative Violence and Philippine Populism 4. The Political Organization of Genocide: Central Orders and Regional Implementation under the Khmer Rouge 5. Violence against the Rohingya: Strategic and Ideological Drivers of Ethnic Cleansing Part 3: Minorities and the State 6. The Crucible of ¿i¿n Biên Ph¿: Making Vietnam in the First Indochina War 7. The Khmer Republic's Mass Persecution of the Vietnamese Minority in Cambodia, 1970-75 8. The Genocide of Rohingyas in Burma Part 4: Technologies, Techniques, and Ideologies 9. The Air War in Vietnam: Responses to the Machinery of Mass Violence 10. Medical Experiments, Blood and Gall: Revolutionary Utilization of the Body in Khmer Rouge Prisons Part 5: Justice, Ethics, and History 11. Assessing Genocidal Intent in the Context of Myanmar's Rohingya 12. Justice after Dictatorship in Thailand 13. Investigating Genocide: Rithy Panh's "S-21" (2004) 14. Vietnam, ASEAN, the Great Powers, and the Challenges of Learning from the Cambodian Genocide Part 6: The Shadow of the Past on the Present 15. The Mobilization of State-Sponsored Mass Organizations Since the 2006 Coup in Thailand 16. Something in the Water: Towards a Symbolic History of Otherness in Chrouy Changvar, Cambodia 17. Mass Violence and Mob Violence in Cambodia: Responses and Social Repair - Hope for the Future?